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A Level playing field? Exam results during the pandemic

Published on 17 August 2020

Recently, students got their A Level results, despite having never sat an exam. How did the government decide what grades to give students?

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Recently, students got their A Level results, despite having never sat an exam.

How did the government decide what grades to give students? What methodology did they use? How did this affected the distribution of results?

We spoke with Jack Britton, Associate Director at IFS and expert on education, to get to the bottom of how the government calculated exam results during the pandemic.

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Paul Johnson

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Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.

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Jack Britton

Associate Director IFS

Jack Britton is a Reader of Economics at the University of York and an Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at UCL and a Research Affiliate at IZA.